Inquiry Learning is a core approach underpinning all the Key Competencies of The New Zealand Curriculum:
Thinking - critical thinking, questioning, creative thinking and metacognition (thinking about your learning)
Relating to others - being open to the views and knowledge of others
Using language and symbols - knowing how to use resources, to comprehend and find meaning
Managing self - related to personalised learning, setting tasks and following them through
Participating and contributing - learning takes place in community
And it also gives purpose to the use of ICT in learning:
Search processes and applications, eg Access-it
Websites and databases, including EPIC, Te Ara, the various websites developed or accessible through the National Library.
I've added some links below relating to these databases and Inquiry processes:
National Library website:**www.natlib.govt.nz**For school use (teachers and librarians) click on schools, and for the quickest access to learning databases click on students in the top right box
Please share what you think of anything in these sites.
and...
In preparation for our training session, please use this forum for
Questions about Inquiry Learning/ Information Literacy
Stories about a successful inquiry unit or lesson- or about a disastrous unit or lesson
Your thoughts
(Just click on "Edit this page" box at the top, write your response, then "save draft" in the box below.)
I suppose you all have this website on your Desktops: http://sites.google.com/a/aotea.org/don-armitage/Home. There are some great examples for students on needing to be careful about information (eg Le Roy's account of Great Barrier's history.)
And it also gives purpose to the use of ICT in learning:
I've added some links below relating to these databases and Inquiry processes:
- National Library website: **www.natlib.govt.nz** For school use (teachers and librarians) click on schools, and for the quickest access to learning databases click on students in the top right box
- Australian Library & Information Association information literacy forum advocacy kit: **http://www.alia.org.au/advocacy/literacy.kit.pdf**
- Information Literacy Online (Gwen Gawith): **http://infolit.unitecnology.ac.nz/**
- Jamie McKenzie's From Now On site: **http://fno.org/**NEMP access tasks, information skills 2005: **http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?cPath=31_208_288&products_id=1180**
- Dr Ross Todd of Rutgers University, an Australian who has taught in New Zealand, is the international guru: valuable presentations in **http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~rtodd/archive.htm**
- SLANZA (School Library Association of NZ Aotearoa): **www.slanza.org.nz/i2k.html**
- And for something a little different: What is information literacy? (Otis College Utube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeopJX5jJV8
- Questions about Inquiry Learning/ Information Literacy
- Stories about a successful inquiry unit or lesson- or about a disastrous unit or lesson
- Your thoughts
(Just click on "Edit this page" box at the top, write your response, then "save draft" in the box below.)Please share what you think of anything in these sites.
and...
In preparation for our training session, please use this forum for
I suppose you all have this website on your Desktops: http://sites.google.com/a/aotea.org/don-armitage/Home. There are some great examples for students on needing to be careful about information (eg Le Roy's account of Great Barrier's history.)